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You don’t need to turn in your gamer card. Gaming is the only medium were you are actively blocked from it if you don’t participate well, so I would rather have people who finishes a game on easy or with guides than all the difficulty purists crying git gud.
Gaming is something anyone should enjoy in their own way and skill level.
And we joke about it of course, but I secretly really hate game difficulty shaming (that – coincidentally – also includes Wolfenstein with it’s “Can I play daddy?” mocking.)

What’s worse is that a lot of modern “difficulty” comes from kludge rather than genuine circumstance. q.v. Dark Souls: A game which has a deliberately obtuse user interface that locks you into an input you pressed two seconds ago, plus supernaturally accurate enemies and inexplicable area-of-effect melee attacks, is not “difficult”, merely “frustrating”.